Even immortals fall. But where do they ultimately reside? Is it the afterlife awaiting the heroic and virtuous, or the unruly defiles of Hades? Destiny is hidden under a mask. It conceals as much as it reveals. It eagerly finds order in disorder. It yearns for it as much as a Spartan dreams of a beautiful death. War reveals what men are made of as much as it conceals their final moments.
This is a collection of stories depicting various figures of the Greco-Persian wars. It portrays the aftermath of the Spartans' death at Thermopylae, Ephialtes' betrayal, Artemisia's rise to the throne, King Xerxes' murder, Queen Gorgo's attempt to unify Greece, and Herodotus' journey from exiled scribe to the world's first historian.